[Cz-L] from Gary Rogovin Sadegura travel information request

>11-12-07
>
>Hello fellow Czernowitz descendants and natives.
>
>My name is Gary Rogovin
><mailto:grcpa_at_worldnet.att.net>grcpa_at_worldnet.att.net. I have been
>in contact with Mr. Bruce Reisch, who was kind enough to invite me
>to join the Czernowitz/Sadagora Jewish Genealogy/History discussion
>group and to pose my questions in this forum...
>
>My mother, Ethel (Etelka) Kriegsmann, was born in Sadegura in 1911
>and emigrated along with her three siblings: Rosa, Jacob
>and Josef, to the U.S. aboard the St. Louis (Hamburg-America
>lines) which sailed from Hamburg, Germany, on 9/20/1929 arriving in
>NY City on 9/30/1929. She had a Rumanian passport. The address at
>which she and her family lived, which is listed on my maternal
>grandfather's emigration (to the U.S.) ship manifest from 1923, was
>City: Cernowitz, address: Steingasse 20. I am not sure if
>"Steingasse 20" is in Sadegura (a suburb town of Czernowitz) or in
>the City of Czernowitz itself. Based on the Czernowitz address
>finder link on the
><http://czernowitz.ehpes.com/> website,
>Steingasse shows up as a street name in Czernowitz during the
>Austo-Hungarian period.
>
>Does anyone know for sure if Steingasse 20 would be a street address
>in Sadegura or Czernowitz?
>
>My maternal grandfather, Kalman Lieb "Louis" Kriegsmann sailed to
>the U.S. from Hamburg aboard the SS Mount Clinton on 9-6-1923 and
>arrived in NY City through Ellis Island on 9-13-1923
>
>According to my Mom, my maternal grandmother, Fanny (Korner
>or Kohner or Kerner or Karner - no one alive knows for sure) died
>while still in Europe, from a brain tumor. That would mean that she
>died sometime after 9/13/1923 (the date my grandfather left from
>Hamburg for the U.S,) and before the date that my mother and her 3
>siblings left Hamburg aboard the MS St. Louis on 9/20/1929. So there
>is a six year period there in which Fannie could have died
>(1923-1929), but I would assume it would have been within the year
>prior to my mother sailing from Hamburg, meaning that Fannie
>probably died in 1928 or early 1929. According to my mother, Fannie
>was in her 30's when she passed away. My mother had told me that she
>was told that the cemetery that Fanny was buried in, was heavily
>damaged during allied bombing in W.W. ll, but she never told me the
>name of the cemetery. I believe it is or was in or near Sadegura, or
>perhaps Czernowitz.
>
>Some of my cousins and I would like to plan a trip
>to Sadegura/Czernowitz to see where our mothers lived and "walk
>where they walked". Our mothers and their brothers also spent some
>time visiting in Vienna with their first cousin, Sigi Bernfeld, a
>member of this forum, and we would like to visit there as well.
>
>Hopefully you ladies and gentlemen might be able to be of
>assistance and tell me the best travel route (planes, trains,
>etc.) to Sadegura from NY City and/or Los Angeles, where one might
>stay in Sadegura/Czernowitz, credit cards that are accepted, if
>American currency is accepted, etc., or put me in contact with
>someone who could help me with that information and perhaps
>even travel arrangements.
>
>I would also like to know when might be the best time (climate wise)
>of the year to travel there.
>
>Thank you,
>Gary Rogovin
grcpa_at_worldnet.att.net
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------


Received on 2007-11-12 20:44:30